Ng Eng Hen “clarifies” MOE’s plans for Mother Tongue language
May 13th, 2010 | 
Author: A day after apologizing publicly for giving the “wrong” impression that mother tongue weightage in the PSLE will be cut, Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen has written a letter to mother tongue language (MTL) teachers, “clarifying” the Ministry’s plans for MTL in schools.
Dr Ng wrote in the letter that a “shift” towards focusing on language proficiency is needed to enable more students from English-speaking homes to become proficient users of their MTL.
He has also asked the MTL Committee led by the Director-General of Education, Ho Peng to set out a “road-map” for the next 10 to 15 years. Dr Ng did not elaborate on the details of his plan.
For many years, a small group of English-educated Singaporeans have been calling for the weightage of MTL to be reduced as their children have difficulties scoring in the subject.
On 21 April, Dr Ng dropped a bombshell by suggesting that MTL weightage could be reduced, sparking a massive outcry among Singaporeans with two Chinese teacher unions protesting against MOE’s decision to do so.
In a most stunning U-turn, Dr Ng backtracked yesterday and reassured Singaporeans that the MTL weightage will not be reduced. For some inexplicable reasons, the announcement was made by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana.
The state media has been quick to limit the PR damage from the fallout by giving extensive publicity to Dr Ng’s subsequent speeches to “rectify” the “honest mistake”.
With the next election around the corner, the embattled PAP cannot afford to peeve off more Singaporeans, especially the Chinese-educated HDB heartlanders who still form the majority of the population.
A surgeon by training, it remains to be seen if Dr Ng will remain the Education Minister after the next election.
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This chicken, oops I mean Hen, is a kantang who can’t even converse in basic conversational mandarin himself. So how do you expect him to appreciate, let alone defend the importance of MTL ?
The Shit Times can go ahead to print ad nauseum news on him to assuage his reputation. But the people will remember this fiasco episode, no doubt.
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Do you think he cares
pap gov .. you die your business… but it is their business as a ruling party to put it’s people first.
But sadly we all know they put themselves first.. if not please tell me why are they pay millions. Let put sg to vote , every single one and do online ,, we will be able to see sg citizens agree to the pay.
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May 11, 2010 at 8:49 am
@yoursdp.org … Good luck to SG citizens
@When rights can mean life and death
Monday, 10 May 2010
Chee Soon Juan
“Are you Dr Chee Soon Juan?” an elderly woman asked tentatively.
“I need to talk to you,” she continued as she confirmed my identity. “I have been found guilty of poisoning my husband. But I was forced into confessing. The officer who questioned me was very harsh.”
“She was not allowed to call me when she was at the station,” her son jumped in. “She couldn’t even have a lawyer present unlike in Hong Kong or London.” The following day the media reported on the case (here).
This is a little known fact in Singapore. Most people are not aware that if you are called up for questioning by the police, you don’t have the right to a counsel while you are being interrogated. And if you are forced into confessing to the crime, in its exceedingly difficult to get the court to accept your retraction of the confession and that it was made under duress.
This seemed to be the case when District Judge Ng Peng Hong threw out Madam Fong Quay Sim’s (pictured above) defence that she was forced into confessing that she had poisoned her husband by lacing his food and drink with arsenic.
The 68-year-old granny said during the trial that Station Inspector Faisal Sheik Abdul had pressured her into signing the confession by interrogating her in a very harsh manner. Judge Ng concluded that “there was no intense interrogation”, threw out Mdam Fong’s defence and convicted her. Sentencing was postponed.
Is Mdm Fong telling the truth? How did the Judge know that there was no intense interrogation? He had only the word of the interrogation officer. Which raises another question: Would the police sink so low as to force confessions from suspects?
They have in the past.
In 1989, Mr Zainal Kuning was charged together with two accomplices, brothers Mohd Ismail and Salahuddin Ismail, for savagely stabbing a coffee shop caretaker to death. During the trial the prosecution produced a signed statement from Mr Zainal confessing to the crime.
At the hearing Mr Zainal retracted his confession and contended that he was forced into signing it. He said that he was denied food and drink for several hours when he was questioned, and claimed that he was repeatedly marched to the toilet where he was drenched, and then made to stand on a chair under the air-conditioner holding two telephone books with arms outstretched.
The accused even said that at one point, an officer grabbed his hair and banged him against the wall. After 24 hours, the accused gave in and confessed.
Rather fortuitously, however, during the three years in remand awaiting trial, Mr Zainal learned from one of his fellow inmates that the inmate had overheard a man by the name of Man Semput boasting how he had killed the caretaker. He even showed off the scars on his chest when the victim threw boiling water at him.
Mr Zainal engaged the late J B Jeyaretnam as counsel. Jeyaretnam argued that the police had no evidence linking his client to the murder scene. There was only the confession which his client had said was forced out of him.
Hight Court Judge (the late) T S Sinnathuray rejected Jeyaretnam’s argument and like, Judge Ng Peng Hong in Mdm Fong’s case, ruled that the confession was made voluntarily.
During the late stage of the trial, the police managed to locate a man by the name of Mohd Sulaiman aka Man Semput. Fingerprints lifted at the scene of crime confirmed that Mr Sulaiman was their man, not Mr Zainal.
DPP Bala Reddy had no choice but to withdraw the prosecution’s case.
After more than three years in prison and coming close to death, Mr Zainal and the Ismail brothers walked free.
The three men subsequently sued the police officer who interrogated them and accused the police of torture, malicious prosecution and defamation. They lost. The media gave scant coverage to the matter.
Mr Chris Lydgate, in his book Lee’s Law: How Singapore crushes dissent, chronicled the case. He wrote:
What was more perplexing was the wall of silence surrounding the case…The entire country, it seemed, was unwilling or unable to to discuss the issue. The trial might as well never have happened.
This leads me back to my original point. How is it that suspects can be left with police interrogators for questioning during which confessions can be involuntarily extracted with no witnesses around? How can judges accept such an arrangement?
Abuses by police officers who are under pressure to deliver results can, and have been shown to, occur. Without a lawyer present during interrogation, suspects are at the mercy of their captors. Innocent people like Zainal Kuning, Mohd Ismail and Salahuddin Ismail can be victimised.
In the present case, did Mdm Fong really poison her husband? Did Inspector Faisal force her to confess? Only Mdm Fong and Mr Faisal know.
Here comes the million-dollar question: Why not remove all doubt by ensuring that suspects have lawyers and/or witnesses present during interrogation? If the evidence is strong enough the suspect may want to voluntarily confess on the advice of his/her lawyer. At the very least, accusations of confession under duress can be eliminated.
Such butchery of due process must be reviewed without which we could be wrongly convicting innocent people and even sentencing them to their deaths. With the mandatory death penalty in play in Singapore, such a review is all the more urgent.
Calling Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong, Law Society and Singaporean lawyers…
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Apparently, Ng Eng Hen leaked out the real PAP intention too hastily and get a public rebuttal from his boss.
His 2010 annual increment and bonus may be jeopardized but he is honest at east for not hiding the real intention.
The lowering of mother tongue subject has been a long term goals by the elites who are now occupying positions in govt, PAP, civil services.
This fight traced back to colonial time.
The “prestige” of being a asian half-cooked britons are still the value set of many elites
The news conference is just to mask their intention.
Two lessons we can drawn from the past.
In 1981, former Minister Howe Yong Cheong proposed raisng the CPF withdrawal age to 62 then 65, that was an uproar and the plan was hidden for a while, the backlash came in 1984 election the support of PAP fell by 11% compared to the 1980 GE, the golden age of PAP.
Of cos, the surge in living cost, housing prices and graduate mother policy all hit the people hard, that PAP got its lesson ( or have they ?)
A saying is that the re-engineering of population composition by govt.
Are we not seeing an influx of northern India expats and immigrants (they r noticable driving SUV with handphone on hands while driving), these indian does not speak Tamil and schools don’t have enough teachers trained to teach other India languages as mother tongues.
What about the incraese oif Philippino and Viets, their integration into Singapore citizenship will pose same problem to mother toungue subject weightage
So, is the govt doing it slowly to make Singapore original mother tongues a decoration at best ?
Maybe, possibly !
We may have a future Singapore consists of
1) Upper class
PAP elites + Indian expat turned citizens + China Phd holders(on Sg govt scholarship)
2) Tier 2
Middle class of singaporean master of two languages ( did we forget MM Lee said nobody can master two languages or bcos some elites’ princelings fail in doing that)
3) Lower middle class
Loacl who made the upward social mobility by studying very hard, noticably the heatlanders.
4) Worker, blue collars
Here filled the “unwanted” jobs by non graduate PR turned citizens
They don’t have their mother tongues taught in local schools, so they need Sg govt to bend the the local culture.
5) The digital-age left out
The noisy ah bengs who would be happy with election goodies and garden upgrading
6) The minority
This is a pwewr group, the single, educated, GLBT, and new breed of generation Z, they have become the bilingual defender and they dare to stand out
Now, what PAP can do and can’t do is a complex issue, and whether they make changes to fit in their projected electroral support amidst changing population composition, or really do good to serve the people, we won;t know
But one thing for sure, PAP will do what they see good for their staying power in 10 to 20 years, they know Singaporean have short, very short memory, they know we don’t know much of the rich diversity in education inherited from Bristish colonial govt.
Fellow Singaporean, you must know what is good for you -
Do you wnat to melt the new arrivals into Singapore or
Do you allow they to dilute your culture to make this their new colony
Is this too extreme in above view ?
Share with us of yours
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Freaking $2 million minister can’t get his words correct… should be fired.
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i wonder if Dr Ng doesn know how to converse in mandarin.
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yayaya so?
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Over the past 30 years the gov has been innumerable changes to education of second language…it is still making changes now. Does it mean that all the changes implemented in the past had been ineffective? If so, the Minister of Education at that time or for that matter the Director General of Education must have set the WRONG policies, which are only recognised NOW.
Also, this time the Director General of Education is HO PENG, who is HO CHENG’s sister. Did the new MTL policy come from her….Her sister is a FINANCIAL JINX, is she also an EDUCATION JINX?
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Said it earlier, MT is a very serious matter, we cannot afford to let the PAP government fool around with it.
Foreign workers and supply of public houses issues are due to mismanagement by incompetent PAP ministers and civil servants. They can implement new policies or tweak existing ones to rectify the problems.
But on the issue of MT can we allow them to fool around?
Singapore will still progress without PAP; but losing MT and cultures will have detrimental consequences.
Of course we need to react fast and stop them from making further mistakes.
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Just because few of the banana people cannot cope, they want whole of us to drop mother tongue? What the hell is it? Your grandfather’s country?
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A doctor-trained individual to be Education minister. Do you seriously think he can do his job and hold a discussion about “what is education?”
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This may be an election ploy to show how “humble” the PAP is by “apologising”. In fact, I feel that this proposal is in response to the disgruntled voices of some who feel against having a PRC background student or foreign student getting top in PSLE and O-Levels. To mollify critics, they propose the reduction of weightage (cosmetics only, since the raw score is never published), supposedly removing the advantage the PRC and foreign students have.
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Not everyone can master 500, or 2500 or 5000 words of a MT.
Who dare to ask the Minister how to set up weightage for each student who could master only 500, or 2000 or 4000 words of an MT?
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It is not easy to be the MOE in red dot, isn’t it?
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It’s intentional. He is testing the ground.
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How will he come up with plans…he has no idea at all….
and giving it to Ho Ching’s sister….
She is not bad…at least does her job well and not so suay.
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Minister Ng clarified. Next, Mr Philip Yeo clarified.
The tongue is indeed in a slippery place.
Words come from the brain, the unseen, and via that slippery place.
Those who continue not to respect the unseen will face controversies in life. Some will end in misery. Make no mistake about it.
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Philip in a flap over Apple ‘dummies’ remark
By Angela Lim – May 13th, 2010
SPRING Singapore chairman Philip Yeo has enraged Apple’s legion of fanatical followers in Singapore over comments they feel are derogatory.
The Straits Times reports that Apple fans are furious about his claims that people who buy applications for Apple products are “gullible customers” and that they were wasting their money on “all sorts of useless applications”.
Mr. Yeo made the comments last week when he was the guest speaker at the Fullerton-St. Joseph’s institution leadership.
“I always tell my daughter, make products and services to sell to the dummies”, he added.
The YouTube video clip, that was first posted on Razor TV, has since garnered more than 3,000 views.
While Apple declined to comment on Mr. Yeo’s statements, local Mac, iPod, iPhone and soon-to-be iPad fans in Singapore have plenty to say.
YouTube user, Cryfamm, commented: “This is so downright ignorant and lack of respect for the Apple consumers (sic). Never should anyone of certain political background dispute the grounds of any customers preference in whatever they are spending their money on (sic).”
Popular local illusionist and J.C Sum was quoted on the same newspaper as saying he was upset not by the “dummy” label but because “he is the chairman of Spring Singapore!” SPRING Singapore is an agency responsible for incubating and funding small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
YouTube user, jeremyfoo, added: “And yet if a company comes along with an idea that has the potential to make money using the same model that Apple has, he wouldn’t hesitate to have SPRING invest in it”.
Others worry that Yeo’s remarks might have harmed Singapore’s chances of securing future investments from Apple.
The 64-year-old has since clarified to the newspaper that he had simply been misunderstood. He explained that he used the word “dummies” to mean “laymen, which is the major market” and not as an insult.
“If I was calling them idiots, I would have used ‘idiots’,” he was quoted as saying.
He added that, in fact, he too has ordered an iPad and will receive one from overseas soon. He further explains that his point (that many had missed in the video) was that Singapore should learn from Apple, a company that has found a very lucrative customer base.
This is not the first time the former A*Star chairman has courted controversy.
In 1998, as Chairman of EDB, he publicly named government scholarships holders who broke their bonds in order to shame them, sparking a major debate on bond-breakers.
In 2005, The New Paper published an article on his book in which he remarked that Singapore men were “wimps, whiny, and immature” even after undergoing National Service. The reason Yeo gave was that all bond-breakers since the early ’90s were Singaporean men.
A year later, Dr. Lee Wei Ling, head of the National Neuroscience Institute and Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter, publicly questioned the policy of Philip Yeo and A*Star, asserting that they were wrong by putting public money on competing with western countries on cutting-edge research. She said that Singapore should instead focus on niche areas in Biotech research.
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It maybe another wayang afterall.
Ng Eng Hen creates the mess. Lee HL clears up the mess in a swift manner. Voters see Lee HL having “leadership” qualities (even though he does not) and votes for ruling party in the next election.
After Lee gets re-elected (hopefully it does not happen), he goes behind closed doors and thanks Ng and promise him a big present for him to go away and enjoy his later life.
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As a Debt/Tax Payer for the next generations of Singapore, I expect there must have some form of a resolutions or alternative methods for many peoples which have no geniune interest in getting the former academic for this old school education system in Singapore; which is designed to fail and diminish many of the local potential or talented peoples, as most of the subjects in our school system is not what preceivable the necessary survive life skills as in preparing for the current and highly competitive era of globalisation, it post a great limitation of choice for many in life. What we may see in the next 10 to 15 years, many of our local will become Zombies and shall be living under control by external forces.
To: Mr. Ng Eng Hen (MOE) “You are being paid millions to THINK & TAKE ACTIONS!!!” – Important Informations for getting your Attention and Awareness; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
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@Jasmine:
May 13, 2010 at 7:50 pm
A doctor-trained individual to be Education minister. Do you seriously think he can do his job and hold a discussion about “what is education
He is there to collect the millions. Discussion about education will his last thing in mind. Why not try asking him to do the discussion in Mandarin since this is the issue at hand. And let see if he has the balls. Talk is cheap. He just take his millions. Sg you die your business.
Daft
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@In 1998, as Chairman of EDB, he publicly named government scholarships holders who broke their bonds in order to shame them, sparking a major debate on bond-breakers.
In 2005, The New Paper published an article on his book in which he remarked that Singapore men were “wimps, whiny, and immature” even after undergoing National Service. The reason Yeo gave was that all bond-breakers since the early ’90s were Singaporean men.
A year later, Dr. Lee Wei Ling, head of the National Neuroscience Institute and Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter, publicly questioned the policy of Philip Yeo and A*Star, asserting that they were wrong by putting public money on competing with western countries on cutting-edge research. She said that Singapore should instead focus on niche areas in Biotech research.
This guy is an idiot. He only put himself first. Dr Allan Ooi is in a way breaks the bond. So what PY can do. Join him in heaven. I hope Ooi will find his way back to haunt this people.
Sg citizens… don’t count your eggs first. There are many on going things that many of you ordinary citizen will leave to regret if You allow this to continue. I will choose not to ever vote pap gov. I have not my the last 30 years.
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Why is say PY is idiot , cos i know he goes round pleading some talented sg who are not scholar to work for him.. but not willing to pay peanuts. But sadly , this talent never ever comes back , cos they are more appreciated else where.
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A little defence for the English Hen (well, his “adopted” mother tongue tehrefore is ENGLISH ?)
The Hen is basically doing what MM wanted, MM said in 2009 that bilingual policies IS A MISTAKE, after 30 years.
First, they used Mother tongue to repalce Grand-mother tongues ( dialects), then they use that to win votes for PAP can project an image that they are the Asian cultural “defender”.
By now, the harms (as many elites’ kid fail to make the marks in MTL subjects)outweighs the benefit (afterall, the GRC lock up so many seats for PAP), hence the time for “change” has come.
Do you think PM disagree with MM, maybe not; but PM is not sure if the change will hurt PAP in short run, i.e. the next election, so he has to make a gesture to the heartlanders.
The Hen is caught in between, he must be more political sensitive to know who has the final say, the Dad or the Son. Or else, he may end up in the curry pot serving in little India where customers speak 100 languages or more. [
Note:National languages are 18. The spoken languages in India are 347], hence, with more expats pouring into Singapore, MOE may have to find more FT to come in to teach hundred of mothers’ tongues
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He should stick to his profession of being a “doctor” instead of an “educator”. These two profession don’t cross.
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I don’t think Dr Ng made a mistake at all.
See
http://petunialee.blogspot.com/2010/05/mother-tongue-faux-pas-not-at-all.html
for details.
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Oh … maybe you please go back be a doctor … easier to do operation & give medication because your patient most likely have no idea on their medical issue and so cannot oppose to your recommendation.
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Why apologise,is this necessary?
THE biggest APOLOGY is not mother tongue this or mother tognue that.
This is another side wayang of diversion.
So what if you get distinction for MTL,we still see many local graduates being displaced and REPlaced by FTs.Even fresh local gradutes got offerred only “part-time”/contract work by both public and private sector employers.
The permanent full-time jobs go to the FTs with “double degrees”?
I just hope they did not buy those degrees with their dads’ money???
No offence intended,but how many are our classmates who failed to get into NUS or NTU,asked their dadS to send them on “OFS”-OVERSEAS FATHER’S SCHOLARSHIPS? A very rich good friend of mine told me when I congratulated him for raking in an UPPER SECODN CLASS HONOURS from a renown university in LONDON,yes LONDO, and he told me he merely scraped through,but he bribed his professor/tutor and got what he wanted.And ,that was LONDON!Hey,double degrees from India or PRC,WOW?!!!
Don’t get me wrong,I AM NOT DEMEANING this LANGUAGE THING but good manners and morals does not come from a high score from MTL or any other subject for that matter!
WHAT,i REPEAT,what is lacking is MORAL EDUCATION.
We can forced our children to study so hard and score distinctions but we CAN-NOT stop them from committing immoral acts like pornography or hooliganism or even contemplating suicide.
An amoral society never last…look at the many happennings in the world especially the recent WALLSTREET man-made DISASTER and you have your answers.THOSE guys there at WALLSTREES,CEOs included,are supposedly the creme-de-la creme of CORPORATE AMERICA.
tHERE IS NO NEED to look further…
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@Petunia Lee:
May 14, 2010 at 10:48 am
I don’t think Dr Ng made a mistake at all.
OH, Petunia Lee……. are you related to the Lee.
Dr. Ng didn’t made a mistake. Only a freak event(once every 50yrs:- Dr YC).
Oh maybe Ho Peng made a mistake, pass it on the him to be screw. This is nothing new in uniquely Sg by the way. From the forum HP and HC and sisters. So , I guess we let the read decided.
What has a Dr. got to do with Education. I have written, if he wants to lead by example , please use mandarin in his speech.
The bottomline is SG citizen is screw like it or not. Every single day is a struggle. Lastly , What is our mother tongue? english, chinese , hokkien, hainan, cantonese, indian or malay etc etc. The elite cannot hand the mandarin , the change the policy. With more prc, mandarin will be mother tongue. Sg who cannot make it will just emmigrate
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What is education?
Better ask him what is Complete Education.
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James Lai:May 13, 2010 at 8:19 pm,
Then they are the one at FAULT. Who asked them to import them so freely, give them PRs or even citizenship ??? Isit that these kid’s parents invested a hefty sum of S$1.5 million into Singapore ???
I sees such ‘back-fires’ a karma.
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We are doubtful this Ng eng hen or cock is sincere.
Knowing PAP for decades, we are certain they will talk & do it differently.
VOTE PAP OUT or lose your language and culture
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The big issue is now how to accomodate the large influx of foreigners turned Singaporeans. The composition of the society has changed largely over the few years. To impose Tamil on Hindi-Indians is like forcing Hakka on Hokkiens. And what about the Angmohs – what will be their 2nd language: Tamil, Malay, Chinese?
It is a delicate issue which needs to be addressed sooner or later due to the liberal immigration policy that Singapore now adopts. The interests of the foreigners who bring in large amounts of investments will need to be balanced. Even if it is pushed aside for now, I reckon the topic will be re-visited, probably after election.
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Its good to see that future politicans can also be allowed to learn on the job.
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Old Hen,
I think being a surgeon is more tough than a politician in the sense that when you operate someone, it can be life or death.
if it were me, i would not work as surgeon if there is other lobang.
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Singapore is the only country in the world where the language of instruction in school does not belong to the majority! Who is the majority in this country? The answer is simple. English is forced down our throat without our approval!!!!!!
My parents never approve the English policy in this country!
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Money. Commerce. Education.
Now, with rise of the Dragon, we should shift our thinking a bit.
Technically speaking, English need not be the rule of the universe. From a future perspective, USA may not be as powerful as it had been before. Maybe after it clear its debts? But no offens to usa. Its a great country nevertheless.
Mandarin is the new kid on the block.
Now, who was the sucker who cry / sainai to his mama or papa to lobby to make chinese less important or weigh less in exams so that he can look smarter?
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If he makes a mistake, it is a mistake: Bad enough
If he did not make a mistake but simply not talking properly: Bad enough bec how can you expect a $2m salaried minister can make such careless mistake of national concern
If he deliberately made a mistake so that our PM corrected him to look good in the public for the coming election, i.e. wayang wayang: Also Bad
If he did not make a mistake : Worst, because it is a bad and unpopular issue which even a young teen will think it is not right for the country
Whichever way, the conclusion is as good as mind, oh no, i should have chosen the words rightly, sorry, it should have been “mine”
I am still walking and walking over my GRC, oh no, i mean walking around my constituency.
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Went for the parliament sitting this afternoon, and it was a little disappointing because I personally felt that Mr Ng wasn’t able to answer half of the questions posed to him satisfactorily. I understand education planning starts off pretty much on an abstract level, and it is definitely not easy given the complex implications behind each policy. Hence, it is important we citizens show our support and belief in the MOE, if not in its ability to deliver the best policies at this point, its conviction and desire to cater the best to our students. I just hope they know where they are going, and what they are doing. The implications of education policy and planning on the future generations of our society is no joke, and is definitely worth more than a $2m-paycheck.
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